We are publishing the full text of the "Warning against the dissemination of extremist materials through the media and the implementation of extremist activities" (No. 13-12-05), sent on March 4, 2005 by the Prosecutor's Office of St. Petersburg to the editor-in-chief of the newspaper "For Russkoe Delo" O.M. Gusev about the newspaper reprinting the article "Russophobia in action. Jewish happiness, Russian tears ...", previously posted on the website of the newspaper "Rus Pravoslavnaya" .

Interfax, citing the department of the Prosecutor General's Office in the Ural Federal District, reports on the liquidation of the Chelyabinsk cell of Hizb ut-Tahrir. During the operation, one of the organization's members, Rinat Galiullin, was arrested, and propaganda materials allegedly inciting inter-religious and inter-ethnic hatred were confiscated. On March 15, a criminal case was initiated on this fact under Part 2 of Art.

On March 15, 2005, the Surgut city court began hearing a criminal case against a group of skinheads accused of killing citizens of Tajikistan and Azerbaijan. Testimony of some witnesses of the committed crimes was heard at the court session. As Interfax news agency was informed in court, further hearings of the case are postponed until April 26, 2005 due to the need for relatives of the killed, who live outside the Russian Federation, to arrive.

Andrey Piontkovsky, President of the Center for Strategic Studies, a political scientist, in his interview to the Demos Center, continues the "managed democracy" series. The thesis of the need to adapt democracy to local conditions is a favorite idea of ​​all authoritarian regimes. Burma, Malaysia, Egypt, Jordan, Russia - anywhere. There is nothing new in this.

On March 14, the site "Ethnic Mosaic of the Nizhny Novgorod Region" launched an electronic voting on the question "Is it necessary to mention ethnic origin in criminal reports of the media?" The action is timed to coincide with the Day of Combating All Forms of Racial Discrimination (March 21). * "Racial discrimination occurs when some people begin to believe that they are better, smarter, more capable than other people just because they have a certain skin color and eye shape.

On March 16, 2005, the leader of the African Unity organization of St. Petersburg, Aliu Tunkara, said in an interview with AiF Petersburg about another beating of an African. According to Mr. Tunkar, on the eve of the interview (that is, somewhere in February-March 2005), a young man from Morocco came to the office of his organization, which is engaged in providing assistance to Africans in St. Petersburg, "all covered in blood " , and said that skinheads attacked him near the office.

Nikolai Petrov, a member of the scientific council of the Carnegie Moscow Center, speaks of such a phenomenon in the political world as "managed democracy" in relation to Russia. Interview to the center "Demos".

On March 17, the service for helping drug addicts began its work at the Spassky Church of the Russian Orthodox Church in Voronezh. Now everyone - both those suffering from drug addiction themselves and their relatives and friends - can call the "helpline" to find out the addresses of specialist doctors and receive pastoral advice. Thus, the Voronezh Orthodox clergy participate in the anti-drug program initiated by the local fund for helping drug addicts.

Vladimir Pribylovsky, President of the Panorama Information Center, in his interview to the Demos Center, reveals the essence of the concept of "managed democracy" in relation to Russia. About the history of the term: "managed democracy", as far as I know - for the first time this phrase began to be used in relation to the left-wing nationalist regime of Sukarno in Indonesia, and it seems that Sukarno himself coined this term in the early 60s.

On March 15, 2005, Nezavisimaya Gazeta published an article by Emil Pain, professor at the Institute of Sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, “From the “vertical of power” to the “vertical of peoples”? In addition to theses previously voiced in other media, E. Pain considers the scenario of the ethnicization of the imperial model of Russian statehood in the context of the multi-ethnic and multi-confessional composition of Russia.

On March 17, 2005, REN-TV broadcast a story about the beating of an African student that happened the day before . In addition to the details of the incident (the attack was committed on two foreign students, one of whom managed to jump into the departing bus, the people who were at the bus stop did not stand up for the African), the report also noted that "over the past year, this is the fourth attack on a foreign student in Lipetsk " .

Speaking on March 17 at MGIMO at the Islam Against Terrorism conference, President of Ingushetia Marat Zyazikov said that a special body should be created under the Russian government to deal with the affairs of religious organizations and oversee issues of the consolidation of society.

March 13 in Chistopol (Tatarstan) held a picket against the violation of the rights of Muslims, the newspaper "Russian Courier" reports with reference to the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Tatarstan. About 30 people gathered in the central square of the city near the monument to Lenin, they had posters with the corresponding slogans in their hands.

An initiative group of Muslims sent an appeal to the Commissioner for Human Rights of the Republic of Tatarstan, Rashid Vagizov, in connection with the case of a teacher at the Kazan Madrasah. The 1000th anniversary of the adoption of Islam, a citizen of Uzbekistan Alisher Usmanov, who in November 2004 was detained on charges of involvement in the Hizb ut-Tahrir organization.

Participants of the 5th interregional competition-seminar "Orthodoxy and the Media" held in Tobolsk sent an appeal to the governor of the Tyumen region S. Sobyanin and the leadership of the All-Russian State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company "Russia" in connection with "an outrageous violation of the rules of journalistic ethics committed by correspondents of the teenage program "Oxygen" on the air of the State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company "Region-Tyumen"" February 19.